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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Costa Book of the Year

On Tuesday,
it was announced that Sebastian Barry had won the Costa Book of the Year Award
for his novel Days Without End.The judges of the £30,000 prizes said it was
“A miracle of a book – both epic and intimate – that manages to create spaces
for love and safety in the noise and chaos of history” (http://www.costa.co.uk/media/452121/sb-cboy.pdf)

The book follows
the life of Thomas McNulty, a migrant who flees Ireland during the Irish
famine.McNulty reaches America and
embarks on a soldier’s life, first fighting Native Americans and then against
armies in the civil war. Barry, who has
said he was inspired to write a book containing a gay love story after his son
came out, also focuses on McNulty’s romance with fellow soldier John Cole, and
their adopted Native American daughter, Winona.

Barry
previously won the award,one of the UK’s most prestigious literary
awards, in 2008 for his novel The Secret
Scripture.

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I'm a retired English teacher/teacher-librarian who, after 30 years, left the classroom and became a copyeditor and book reviewer. Reading has always been my passion and now, in our new home, I have, thanks to my husband, the library of my dreams. For many years, before I retired and moved, I belonged to THE Timmins Book Club which is one of the oldest in North America, with minutes dating back to 1938; I submitted an article about us and it was featured on the LitLovers.com website: http://www.litlovers.com/featured-clubs/timmins-book-club. Now I'm trying to start a global book club of sorts with my blog: http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/.